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by fidotron 3mo ago
The underlying problem is the programming industry completely resisting learning the lessons of Objective-C because it doesn't like them. It didn't like them when NeXT tried selling it, and it doesn't like it now. You can&#x2
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by fidotron 3mo ago
There was persistent noise even back in the 90s that the icon bar was inspiration for the Windows task bar in Win95. Quite the basis for it, or if it was nonsense, no idea. (HN has previously surfaced some serious Acorn related historical s
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by fidotron 3mo ago
Indeed. I specifically recall my logic lecturers in a compsci course expressing the view the one purpose of computers is to work towards enabling automatic proofs, partly because they saw this as the universal problem in compsci (esp compil
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by fidotron 3mo ago
As someone that grew up using Acorn Archimedes it's hard to express to those that were never involved just how difficult what has been going on here is or how surprising it is they have stuck at it. The overwhelming majority of us had
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by fidotron 3mo ago
Furthermore, any attempt to pretend otherwise is an appeal to the idea we are in literal fact haunted by our own internal demons that are inexplicable to science or mathematics. One of the effects of this entire debate is it's exposed
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by fidotron 3mo ago
To the point you have to wonder if the reduced reading for pleasure levels in many places are due to understandably not being able to tell what is worth reading, especially given the enthusiasm the modern book industry has for promoting abs
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by fidotron 3mo ago
It would be luckier if the government actually listened to him.
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by fidotron 3mo ago
Damien Hirst, among many other prominent modern and historical artists, famously employed teams of human assistants to execute the bulk of the work. In the Hirst case that extended to the spot paintings, many of which he had very limited in
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by fidotron 3mo ago
You are deliberately skirting the core problem which is your perception of value is completely warped by supply and demand. If you have a surplus of something then it will cease to be of value to you. For example you do not actually "v
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by fidotron 3mo ago
My guess is energy gets redirected towards sport, and everything associated with it. It's already often an abstracted form of things that used to be work (sailing, hunting etc.), but it's also something more unique that a machine
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by fidotron 3mo ago
What if other LLMs were charged to read the work as well? And those other LLMs were actually in the persona of aspiring authors hoping to learn so they can later sell their work? There's an entire potential economy there without humans
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by fidotron 3mo ago
Surely having the idea and curating the result actually is work? And pricing is determined by what someone else will pay for something, so if people want to read it and the author is charging for it . . . that's up to them if they want
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by fidotron 3mo ago
Yikes!
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by fidotron 3mo ago
The truth is much "pursuit of art" is a status exercise by those with the leisure capacity to do so, and this only maintains status because most people do not have the spare time and energy to put into it. In the event everyone is
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by fidotron 3mo ago
> and valuable, subjective literary articles There you go again. I suspect if everyone on earth produced subjective literary articles at the rate of ten a day you would cease to consider them valuable, let alone a machine that can create
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by fidotron 3mo ago
> holds real value when it is of high quality Does it? This assumption is the core of the entire problem. It might do as some, bluntly, self indulgent exercise but beyond that in society scarcity of things other people need and want is w
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by fidotron 3mo ago
This has been a growing problem with humans for a while. Go back ten years and use "guardrails" or "top of mind" in a conversation and you'll get baffled looks. For whatever reason the fad based enthusiasm for semi
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by fidotron 3mo ago
> Tech does also attract grumpy people. You have cause and effect wrong; it just makes people that have to deal with the people in and around the tech industry grumpy.
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by fidotron 3mo ago
The defining "AI" aesthetic is the TUI, for better or worse. The real question is what the post-AI aesthetic will be, and at a guess it will bifurcate into obsessive recreations of earlier happier pre-AI times, and some sort of op
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by fidotron 3mo ago
It's been said that people that say this are transparently trying to manipulate other people, which is why the others prefer to cut off all potential for tedious negotiations. This is the same reason people prefer buying Tesla cars dir
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by fidotron 3mo ago
Humans have emotions. Best avoided.
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by fidotron 3mo ago
They're fluid, but they are slow, which is highly likely to be a safety thing, which will have the side effect of making many motions more difficult, not less. LLMs aren't themselves hurting anyone, no matter how much certain peop
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by fidotron 3mo ago
They can totally print more dollars to spend on things made somewhere else.
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by fidotron 3mo ago
Without AI the Chinese have won already. If you haven't noticed it's because you've stayed too close to the homeland.
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by fidotron 3mo ago
Without AI there is no future US economy. You're all in.
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by fidotron 3mo ago
> Because there are many legitimate uses for nucleotide synthesis, and we would have to slow scientists down by adding more regulation There are nothing like as many legitimate uses for it than AI, not close, while it's far easier t
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by fidotron 3mo ago
> you need collective action Come on, go on strike then! Have a week of protest and picket the offices in SFO. Let's see what happens. (I'm aware that's not quite what you meant, but it is the classic meaning of that phras
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by fidotron 3mo ago
Have you tried to make LLMs do that? Unless it's implementing previously developed algorithms they screw it up so repeatedly it's incredible. (And even when it is clearly defined it's obviously their weak spot). The "rap
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> I think some AI safety advocates have been arguing for great controls around nucleotide synthesis (e.g., impose greater data collection requirements or advanced screening for harmful sequences). It's surprisingly easy to order syn
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> For all I know (I don't know a lot about biology), it's possible to develop a virus that spreads as easily as measles, but has the lethality and long induction period of HIV. If that's true, and if LLMs would make it eas

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